Arusha National Park in northern Tanzania, known for its scenic beauty, is also a battleground. Roderick Neumann's illuminating analysis shows how this park embodies all the political-ecological dilemmas facing protected areas throughout Africa. The roots of the ongoing struggle between the park on Mount Meru and the neighboring Meru peasant communities go much deeper, in Neumann's view, than the issues of poverty, population growth, and ignorance usually cited. These conflicts reflect differences that go back to the beginning of colonial rule. By imposing a European ideal of pristine wilderness, Neumann says, the establishment of national parks and protected areas displaced African meanings as well as material access to the land. He focuses on the symbolic importance of natural landscapes among various social groups in this setting and how it relates to conflicts between peasant communities and the state.

Imposing Wilderness: Struggles over Livelihood and Nature Preservation in Africa (California Studies in Critical Human Geography)

Business & Money

Neumann, Roderick P.

Economics

University of California Press

Carrying forward the legacy of original author Terry Jordan-Bychkov, Mona Domosh and new coauthors Roderick Neumann and Patricia Price offer this thoroughly updated new edition of the acclaimed introduction to the cultural geography of the world today. The result is a text that maintains its original distinctive style while addressing contemporary issues and situations that students care about, most importantly, the continuing phenomenon of globalization. The Thematic Approach of The Human Mosaic The Human Mosaic introduces five themes in the opening chapter--culture region, cultural diffusion, cultural ecology, cultural interaction, and cultural landscape--then uses those themes as a framework for the topical chapters that follow. Each theme is applied to a variety of geographical topics: demography, agriculture, the city, religion, language, ethnicity, politics, industry, folk and popular culture. Through this organization, students are able to relate to the most important aspects of cultural geography at every point in the text.

The Human Mosaic

Politics & Social Sciences

Price, Patricia L.

Jordan-Bychkov, Terry G.

Domosh, Mona

Social Sciences

W.H.Freeman

Book by Jordan-Bychkov, Terry G., Domosh, Mona, Neumann, Roderick P., Price, Patricia L., Pearce, Margaret

Human Mosaic & Exploring Human Geography with Maps Workbook

Pearce, Margaret

Contemporary Human Geography plus LaunchPad: Culture, Globalization, Landscape

Science & Math

Earth Sciences

WH Freeman

Loose-Leaf Version for Contemporary Human Geography & Launchpad for Domosh's Contemporary Human Geography (Six Month Access)

Loose-leaf Version for Contemporary Human Geography: Culture, Globalization, Landscape

SaplingPlus for Contemporary Human Geography (Single Term Access): Culture, Globalization, Landscape

Loose-leaf Version for Contemporary Human Geography & LaunchPad for Domosh's Contemporary Human Geography (Six Month Online)

Loose-leaf Version for Contemporary Human Geography 2e & SaplingPlus for Contemporary Human Geography 2e (Six-Months Access)

Achieve for Contemporary Human Geography (1-Term Access): Culture, Globalization, Landscape

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